8 climate startup pitches: Stanford Cleantech Hackathon 2026 finals

Finalist pitches at the Stanford Cleantech Hackathon 2026 (Stanford, 24 October 2026), eight teams across grid, consumer energy, and climate and health. Each pitch is followed by judges' questions. The recording ends during the last Q&A. Chapters 00:00 Follow The Sun: route AI inference to the greenest datacenter 07:44 Housemates: appliances as chat characters 13:24 Judy: smart plugs that learn 18:54 Dengai: mosquito breeding sites to inspection routes (OR-Tools) 25:10 USC Heat and Cold Plan Audit: 50 city plans read by a blind LLM coder 30:18 The Chill Factor (UC Davis): chill hours per orchard 36:34 matcha: a calm app for climate anxiety, backup battery sizing 42:59 ResilienceOS: storm outage risk for life-dependent customers What each project actually used, the data and models behind all 19 submissions: https://rustman.org/posts/stanford-cl... Investor panel the same day:    • Climate investors' red flags: don't sell t...   Subtitles: English and Russian. Recorded 24 October 2026. Edited automatically by Life2Film — AI Video Maker · https://life2film.com